Cigarette package



E. L. SOHN.

CIGARETTE PACKAGE. APPLICATION FILED AUG-23, 1920.

p 427, 97 7 Patented Sept. 5, I922.

@atent ept. 1922.

- ED STATES r TENT OFFICE.

ELMER 1.. scan, or EL use, TEXAS;

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Application. file-d August 23, 1920. Serial No. 405,244.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER L. Some, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residin at El Paso, in the county of El Paso and tate of A furtherobject of this invention is to' provide a cigarette package having aweakened part at the top end whereby the corner may be torn from thepackage and cigarettes removed therefrom without destroying thecigarette or disfi uring the package. A further object of t is inventionisuto provide a cigarette package which will keep the cigarettes sealedand at the'same time will provide a means-whereby the corner may beremoved from the package and cigarettes removed from the corner withoutopening the entire top of the package.

A further object of this invention is to provide an easily opened edgeof a cigarette package which will not open the package'to the mlddlethereof and yet which will at the same .time render easy removal of thecigarettes therefrom without admitting of the cigarettes. working out ofthe package.

A further object of this invention is, to provide an improved method ofmanufacture of a cigarette package cover and to provide a method ofweakening a certain portion of the wrapper which is of simple andinexpensive manufacture and in which a perforating rule is quicklyadapted to ac-' complish the weakening at the desired position.

With these and other objects in View; the

invention consists in the construction, the

detail, and the arran' ement of parts, and

scribed and claimed.

" In the drawings:

the methods hereina ter more fully dc;

Figure 1 is a perspective of my improved package intact.

Figure 2 is a perspective the same as Figure 1, except that one. of themembers 3 has been removed. 1

Figure 3 is a plan view oftheinnermost wrapper spread out.

In the embodiment of my invention there is provided an innermost wrapperfora oig:

arette package 1 of the conventional form which is weakened at 2,preferably by ruled perforations which, as shown in Figure 3," aresemicircular in form at the bottom and extendvertically from the endsofthe semi; circle in parallel lines. The center from which thesemicircle is struck is the crease line of the first fold for thepackage at a point midway between the folds for the narrow sides of thepackage, an d the semi circle is of such radius as to extendbeyond thesaid side to an-extent approximating the difierence between the radiusof said semicircle and half the width of the said side. As. shown inFigures 1 and 2, when this weakened part is folded over it provides acap for the corner, which cap extends downwardlynpon the package toapproximately one-fifth of the length of the pack-.

age and extends around the side of the package in' the form of auadrant, andextends over the top of the pac k of the distance from theedge of the package to the revenue stamp 4.- conventionally sealing thetop of the package and provides a straight line across the top'of thepackage by the parallel lines 2* which, when the package is folded atthe V-form indicated by the age about'two-thirds numeral 5, causes theends of-the lines 2* to meet at- 6 and when folded the. tearing lineclears sufficiently the underlapping portions of the V 5 as to produceacomplete and even tear across the top of the package. When this part 3is removed from the corner, the cigarettes are exposed with two rowshav-'ing the tops exposed and having the sides' exposed suflicientlydownward so that they may be readily grasped by the finger,with= outdigging down from the 'top into the package, which is often encountered.in packages in which only a portion of the top is removed. Frequently,users of cigarettes will tear the corner of the package with a view ofgetting at the cigarettesinthe packagewithout tearing the revenue stamp,orwith{ out tearing suflicient of the packageto cause the cigarettes toautomatica 1y escape there-- 'ios from on being carried, and in sotearing the package, in the present method, frequently tear the packagetoo far,.and also leave it with ragged and unsightly edges, and alsofrequently injuring the cigarettes in so doing. In the present package,however, the corner will naturally follow the weakened line, and whenonce started, is easily torn into a perfect and true configuration of ahole andwithout injury to any of the cigarettes, and leaves justsuificient space to en- ,able the removal of the cigarettes withoutadmitting of the cigarettes working from the package.

In the manufacture of this cover, all that is necessary is to bend apair of printers rules in an arcuate form at the bottom, as

shown in Figure 3, and insert them into a form and the whole improvementis accomplished.

Around'the aforesaid wrapper 1. is the usual foil ,wrapper which isimperforate. Around the foil wrapper is the usual cup shaped wrapper,which is open at the top, but perforated along the lines of theperforations of the innermost wrapper. The foil wrapper beingimperforate preserves mama? the quality of the cigarettes and tears withthe perforations in the paper.

What is claimed is i.

1. In a cigarette package a cover member provided with a pair ofparallel weakened lines terminating in a semicircle adjacent each end ofsaid member and arranged so as to extend around an upper corner of thepackage and include within the weakened lines overlapped end portions ofthe closure members of the package.

2. In a cigarette package, a package forming blank including side andend portions with closure members extending along

